Exodus 21:33
If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
34The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.
Cross References
Psalms 9:15Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion. Break thou the arm of the sinner and of the malignant: his sin shall be sought, and shall not be found.
Proverbs 28:10He that deceiveth the just in a wicked way, shall fall in his own destruction: and the upright shall possess his goods.
Jeremiah 18:20Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them. Remember, etc... This is spoken in the person of Christ, persecuted by the Jews, and prophetically denouncing the evils that should fall upon them in punishment of their crimes.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:23-36
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall… Read the whole commentary →